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The full article from Hive Systems (see reference below) contains tables for salted bcrypt and for PBKDF2 that are much less scary. It's based on unsalted, unpeppered hashes. That's not the best choice for hashing passwords. It has no bearing on online brute-forcing scenarios.

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The scenario to which it is applicable is hashed passwords have been obtained by a cracker for offline cracking. We learned this because humans are pattern oriented organisms. If position one has a complexity requirement, then position one would most likely be an uppercase character. However by the very nature of using lowercase only as part of the entropy equation you were by default ignoring the likelihood that someone might still leverage a complex password.įor example, if position one has no complexity requirement, then position one could likely be uppercase or lowercase. I know Hive attempted to handle this by saying these are best scenario random generated.

This is more of same that was debunked by NIST multiple years ago. The reality is that capital letters will be in the first position, numbers will normally be 1 through 5, punctuation will be shift 1 through 5, and complexity also makes the password much more difficult to remember which leads to reuse. This table assumes that by removing/adding complexity to passwords they will instantly default to the lowest (for non-complex) or the highest (for complex) arrangements. It doesn't matter how long your password is if a hacker retrieves it from a low security system and the same password is usable for your bank and email. In the meantime, password reuse is far more dangerous. Hopefully it'll eventually become common practice so we can use short passwords again. I don't know of any other company that goes through the steps we do, but it is possible. I understand that most companies don't take digital security that seriously and many don't even hash passwords or if they do, they don't even use a salt.

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They'd need the code to see the algorithm, the server variable, and the database before they could crack a single password even if it was 1 character in length. If someone stole the database, they wouldn't be any closer to cracking any password. You are correct that the danger is higher with a stolen database, however with good security, this too is meaningless.Īt my current job (a digital security company) we combine the user's password with a long server-side variable before using an expensive hash with a salt on the combination.

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Your chart fails because it ignores relevant variables in the software and the users. Easy to remember, easy for variety and a nightmare to brute. The more complex a password is the more likely a person is to re-use it so one successful fish normally gets you in everywhere (people tend to phish due to the fact you cat tell how complex a password is until after you have it), as a result in the real world the most secure password is 18 characters all lower case. More complex ones have a theoretical strength increase but the brute force attack doesn't know what's behind the encryption yet, so they are in fact exactly as secure as each other. So here are some rules about password strength. Now for the record the password was 12 characters, and again even if it was just letters the brute force needs to explore its variants. The password could be 'password' and the brute force app would need to go through every 8 character attempt on the route there. I have to let the brute force try everything, lower upper, numbers, characters everything. So when I brute force a password protected file (which I had to do at Christmas cos my covid results were sent encrypted with no password). I would generally need the password to know. As long as I know that's what the password is built up with. If someone has an uppercase and lowercase password under 10 digits on a supercomputer I can crack that sure I a few days.

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